Maybe the commitment to a weekly post on the films I watch wasn’t a great idea? I’m struggling with keeping up, but it’s a peculiar period.
I’ll end up watching fewer films just to comply with this obligation faster… just joking.

I’m already very late with the publication of this post, so let’s move straight to the films!

There’s a good reflection to be had about what each of us likes about films. I would say, for example, that I value a plot that makes logical sense (or, if it doesn’t make sense at all, it’s clearly on purpose) but still surprises me; I enjoy bold choices in how scenes are shot and how the film is edited; I love hints that are casually set up and pay off much later in the story (especially if the final editing doesn’t feel the need to explain it by showing the set-up scene again when the resolution comes).
This last point may affect my enjoyment of a film when rewatching it; I may like it more if I understand it better. But what about the other reasons for changing my opinion?

The 15th of August is a symbolic day; it’s a bank holiday (both where I live and where I come from), so you can enjoy the day off even if you’re one of the few who aren’t actually on holidays in this period.

in previous decades I have been a patron in the past of the Far East Film Festival in Udine; that’s where I first ‘met’ Bong Joon-Ho (thourgh a screening of Memories of Murder), took a picture of Takashi Miike holding a huge (fake) syringe, and appreciated Kill Bill’s debt towards Lady Snowblood. And this was just the 2005 edition.

I keep participating in the IndieWeb Carnival , because the themes proposed by the nice people hosting it each month often push me out of my comfort zone. They make me think about myself, my present and my past.
More often than not, they make me realise that, through the years, I have dried off.